Road to War (Antebellum & Causes)
What regional conflict expanded slavery into new territories and established the 36°30′ line in 1820?
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Name the group of Northern states that remained loyal to the United States during the Civil War.
What is the Union?
Which constitutional amendment formally abolished slavery throughout the entire United States in 1865?
What is the 13th Amendment?
What was the federal period from 1865 to 1877 focused on rebuilding the South and readmitting Confederate states?
What is Reconstruction?
What discriminatory laws were passed by Southern states right after the war to restrict freedmen's freedoms and force low-wage labor contracts?
What are the Black Codes?
This strict 1850 law required Northern citizens to assist in returning escaped enslaved people to the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
Approximately how many total military casualties were suffered during the Civil War?
What is over 600,000 casualties?
Which constitutional amendment granted citizenship to all persons born in the U.S. and guaranteed equal protection under the law?
What is the 14th Amendment?
Which federal agency provided food, medical care, and built over 4,000 schools for formerly enslaved people and poor whites?
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
In this economic system, farmers worked land owned by someone else in exchange for a share of crops, often trapping them in debt.
What is sharecropping?
This 1854 act allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to decide on slavery themselves using popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Issued by Abraham Lincoln, this official order set free all enslaved people living in rebellious Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Which constitutional amendment protected the legal right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude?
What is the 15th Amendment?
Which congressional group wanted harsh penalties for Southern leaders and full political rights for freed African Americans?
Who are the Radical Republicans?
What unfair voting requirements were used by Southern states to disenfranchise black voters without violating the 15th Amendment?
What are poll taxes and literacy tests?
What vocabulary term means to formally withdraw or break away from a nation or political union?
What is secede (or secession)?
What term describes a military or civilian person who is killed, injured, or missing during a war?
What is a casualty?
What memory trick helps recall the order of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
What is "Free, Citizens, Vote" (or Free / Citizens / Suffrage)?
What derogatory term was used by white Southerners to describe Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction?
What is a carpetbagger?
What political deal officially ended federal Reconstruction by pulling U.S. troops out of the Southern states in 1877?
What is the Compromise of 1877?
What term describes the movement dedicated to ending the system of slavery in the United States?
What is abolition (or the abolitionist movement)?
Name the Southern physical and economic crisis immediately following the war in 1865.
What was the destruction of farms, infrastructure, and cities across the South?
Which group was notably left out of the language of the 14th and 15th Voting Amendments, causing anger among activists like Susan B. Anthony?
Who are women?
What derogatory term was used to describe white Southern Republicans who supported federal Reconstruction plans?
What is a scalawag?
Which 1896 Supreme Court decision established the legal precedent of "Separate but Equal," legalizing Jim Crow segregation for decades?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?